Police: Woman stabbed downtown

Police and medics were dispatched about 4:50 p.m. to reports of a 47-year-old woman stabbed in the face and abdomen in the 2600 block of Fourth Avenue.

An 85-year-old man living at Bayview Tower, a Seattle Housing Authority building called 911.

“It looks like it was a domestic violence assault,” police spokeswoman Renee Witt said, adding that police were still investigating what started the argument. “Roommates got in a fight and one stabbed the other.”

The man appears to be roommates with the 47-year-old and suffered cuts on his hand, Witt said. He was being uncooperative at the scene and refused medical treatment, police said.

The woman was taken to Harborview Medical Center. Police questioned the man, but Witt said he had not been arrested by 5:30 p.m., and police were still investigating.